“If the right of privacy means anything, it is the right of the individual, married or single, to be free from unwarranted governmental intrusion into matters so fundamentally affecting a person as the decision whether to bear or beget a child.William J. Brennan (Jr.)
“The chilling effect upon the exercise of First Amendment rights may derive from the fact of the prosecution, unaffected by prospects of its success or failure.William J. Brennan (Jr.)
“All ideas having even the slightest redeeming social importance—unorthodox ideas, controversial ideas, even ideas hateful to the prevailing climate of opinion—have the full protection of the guaranties…. But implicit in the history of the First Amendment is the rejection of obscenity as utterly without redeeming social importance.William J. Brennan (Jr.)
“Our nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination… rationalized by an attitude of “romantic paternalism” which, in practical effect, put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.William J. Brennan (Jr.)
“The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to ’create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.William J. Brennan (Jr.)